Chemistry Books For High School Pdf

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Aug 4, 2024, 9:21:43 PM8/4/24

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Inour Charlotte Mason co-op, Truth, Beauty, Goodness, our 8th through 11th graders enjoyed a Chemistry course, taught by Heidi Jahnke. Here are the books we used, the experiments we did, and a few science narration journal examples. Perhaps this might help someone who is thinking of putting together their own Chemistry class. Of course, they kept nature notebooks, too!

This class was a delight for the students (and the moms). Some of them clearly fell in love with chemistry and will be pursuing it in higher education. Some of them have no intention of entering into STEM studies in college (like my daughter), yet took part of the ideas and banquet spread before them and were inspired to go beyond to understand things like Lewis dot notations and balancing chemical equations. The periodic table of elements became something that opened new doors of understanding and now all the students can comfortably work with it. The bulk of the class was reading the books, narrating (mostly oral, some written), and working on their science narration journals.

This scientific attitude of mind should fit us to behave ourselves quietly, think justly, and walk humbly with our God. But we may not confound a glib knowledge of scientific text-books with the patient investigation carried on by ourselves of some one order of natural objects; and it is this sort of investigation, in one direction or another, that is due from each of us. We can only cover a mere inch of the field of Science, it is true; but the attitude of mind we get in our own little bit of work helps us to the understanding of what is being done elsewhere, and we no longer conduct ourselves in this world of wonders like a gaping rustic at a fair.

Hi, Kara! Thanks for your question. I tried to post the framework, but Google was not letting me post it for others to access. Please send an email request to Heidi at hmrj...@hotmail.com and she will send it to you.

Warmly,

Nancy

Thanks for your question! Most of the students simply made a grid that had enough squares, based off of their favorite diagram of the periodic table, adding details as they learned about each element.

Warmly,

Nancy

Nancy,

Thank you so much for sharing this. The notebooks look lovely! What a joy it would be for the students to come back to them in a couple of years!

I wonder how do you come up with a plan for the subject? Do you have each mom responsible for different subjects or you all work on it? Who chooses the books?

Thanks for commenting, Faith! Each mom is responsible for the different subjects, but we all work on it in that we share our plans in our planning meetings and others can chime in with suggestions, etc. Often the moms will run the titles by me that they are thinking about using. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Hi Nancy,

Thanks for sharing! I have a few questions about how your students did things. I looked over the schedule and am wondering if some of the readings were only covered in class, or if the students had all those books and did all the readings on their own before coming to class.

Also, when they created their own periodic tables in their notebooks, did they make the table at the beginning of the year and then add elements to it when they learned about them?

Yes, the readings were done at home and they were read before coming to class. They started the periodic table at the beginning of the year and added them as they read about them. At the end, there were many that were not read about and so had to be added in. Class time was spent sharing some drawing narrations, commmonplace entries, practicing some of the math and working with the periodic table, discussing, and doing experiments.

Hi, Patty!

Well, when we meet together for TBG, the students might share their science narration journals, their commonplace entries from their readings, or some of their written narrations. This semester, we did some work with the periodic table, Lewis dot notations, and balancing equations with the group. About half the experiments were done at co-op and half at home. It was clarifying and enjoyable to work with others on some of the more difficult aspects of chemistry. We also had an emphasis on writing lab reports, which was so helpful.

So as to your question of what does the teacher actually do, she facilitates all of this in an orderly manner. She makes sure everything is ready for all the experiments. She encourages and guides.

She assigns the work. She reviews the work and gently instructs when there is inaccurate information or misunderstandings.

My goals are: enjoyable learning for which the CM options below are best for her; I also want her well prepared for college level sciences, too. She did complete Apologia Biology w/ Labs at co-op this year and finished with an A and became pretty proficient with lab reports. Self directed is definitely a plus, I steer clear of teacher intensive unless I farm it out.

Though the Joy of Chemistry is a very readable book that gives the concepts of chemistry without the burden of the math, be aware that it is steeped in evolutionary assumptions, particularly Part 2.

FYI. Sabbath mood Homeschool has a high school chemistry curriculum coming out this year. They just posted about it, so you might look. She will send everything before you need it. I just checked out the book from the library to read through though we are not near HS yet.

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